Is That Plugin Reliable? How to Test WordPress Plugins

April 25, 2018design tips
There are over 50,000 plugins in the official directory, with new ones added daily. Having so many alternatives is a great thing indeed, but the dilemma is which one to choose when you find several solutions serving the same purpose. How do you know what’s the best choice for your site? You don’t. You just …
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Radial Gradient Recipes

April 25, 2018design tips

Radial gradients are pretty dang cool. It’s amazing we can paint the background of an element with them so easily. Easily is a relative term though. It’s certainly easier than needing to create a graphic in third-party software to use as the background, and the syntax is highly learnable. But it’s also not that easy to remember if you don’t use it often, and it’s more complicated than linear-gradient().

I figured I’d put together a page of reference examples, …

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​Level Up Your JavaScript Error Monitoring

April 25, 2018design tips

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AMP for WordPress 0.7 RC 1 Released

April 24, 2018design tips
XWP, Automattic, and Google’s AMP team, has released 0.7 Release Candidate 1 of the AMP for WordPress plugin. Hinted at during AMP Conf 2018 earlier this year, 0.7 is a major release that contains significant new features. This release adds Native AMP support for all of the default widgets, embeds, (more…)
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Code Review Part 2: Improving Readability and Performance of the FilterWPQuery Class

April 24, 2018design tips
In the last article, I walked you through the problem of letting “no go” conditions flow through your code. I showed you how to refactor the code to solve the problem and make the code more readable.  In this article, you and I will continue doing a code review and refactoring of the FilterWPQuery in Josh …
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10 Examples of Timeless Apple Design

April 24, 2018design tips
When we set out to create a list of ten historic Apple products that feature timeless design, it seemed a little daunting. The reality is that it was anything but. Apple has been at the forefront of design and product design innovation since the Apple I in 1976. (Yes, Apple really has been making computers […]
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Understanding React `setState`

April 24, 2018design tips

React components can, and often do, have state. State can be anything, but think of things like whether a user is logged in or not and displaying the correct username based on which account is active. Or an array of blog posts. Or if a modal is open or not and which tab within it is active.

React components with state render UI based on that state. When the state of components changes, so does the component UI. …

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Grid to Flex

April 23, 2018design tips

Una Kravets shows how to make layouts in CSS Grid with flexbox fallbacks for browsers that don’t support those grid properties just yet. Una writes:

CSS grid is AMAZING! However, if you need to support users of IE11 and below, or Edge 15 and below, grid won’t really work as you expect…This site is a solution for you so you can start to progressively enhance without fear!

The site is a provides examples using common layouts and component patterns, including …

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